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Charging and Sentencing of Murder and Voluntary Manslaughter Cases in Georgia, 1973-1979
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Principal Investigator(s): Baldus, David C.; Woodworth, George; Pulaski, Charles A.
Summary: These data were collected to assess the levels of racial discrimination and arbitrariness occurring at different levels within Georgia's capital charging and sentencing system. Data cover approximately 1,000 murder and voluntary manslaughter cases. Information was obtained for all known penalty trial cases and for certain cases stratified by case type (voluntary manslaughter conviction, nonpenalty trial life sentence, and penalty trial) and by state judicial circuit. Numerous measure... (view full summary)
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09264.v1
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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention .
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